Serious Sam is a return to traditional values. There is a plot, but it’s nothing but window dressing. The only evidence of it is a few lines in the manual and an opening cinematic, which sees aliens stomping all over an urban cityscape as Sam takes them on, before, outnumbered, he bolts through time to Ancient Egypt to sabotage the invaders’ society in its infancy. Although you’re questing towards various amulets, elements and so on, the ultimate goal is just to destroy everything, navigate simple tombs and deserts - lapping up power-ups and increased firepower on the way - and kill increasingly enormous boss enemies. The two PC Serious Sam titles encompassed 36 levels of virtually non-stop blasting, and all of that has been squashed onto one Xbox DVD. And then some.
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